Note 100 — LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

Only the other day I had the pleasure of seeing South Kensington purchase, for twenty-six guineas, two drawings by Millais, studies for or after his Dream of Fair Women in Moxon’s Tennyson. But with the exception of the bidding by South Kensington and myself, there was no competition for the drawings, though every dealer in London was struggling at the sale—the Gambart—for cheap and rubbishy, though popular, French and Spanish water-colours that brought far higher prices owing to some fad of the moment.